Example sentences of "he [modal v] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He could of course simply walk out on some pretext — visiting a friend . |
| 32 | with he , he , I mean he could of beat er , it , could n't he ? |
| 33 | Any sign of Men and he was off out of sight using the dead ground between rises to stay hidden , and he was careful to rise when he could over ridges where rocks or trees broke the skyline and so camouflaged his presence . |
| 34 | Had a very , very good over from Bill Tufnell there , it 's always a bit tricky when you come on to bowl and it 's turning and it 's a long day ahead and you , you 're expected to get hissed and you expect to get hissed , and you can get very impatient when they do n't come , but he 's got one now , he 's got , now he 's bowled well all morning now , he 's bowled almost for an hour , but he 's got that one wicket and he , that over was full of confidence , he tossed one up , misjudged the length and got into a bit of a tangle and then he bowled a quicker one which tried to cut , he then misjudged the pace and he could off nick it to the , a very , very good over and he 's bowling with , with great confidence at the moment . |
| 35 | He was simply aware that Gabriel 's allegiance had changed , that he spent all the spare time he could with Lucie and the girl , and that he no longer believed he was an angel . |
| 36 | His intercourse was with certain holy men addicted to sorcery , who instructed him how to bring over to his side as many friends as he could with witchcraft and soft speeches . |
| 37 | Spending as much time as he could with Midge , Patrick found her extraordinarily rational . |
| 38 | Lucas knew Lord Halifax from his university days and now wrote to tell him that Ramsey was the man whom the diocese wanted as its bishop , and hoped that Halifax would do what he could with Winston Churchill . |
| 39 | Said Munge was short , stocky and usually impassive , though like all Somalis he could on occasion get worked up . |
| 40 | Despite this obstacle , Sturt was determined to press ahead with the expedition , and on 19 May he appealed to Gould to exert any pressure he could on Lord Derby to encourage his son , Lord Stanley — who was then Secretary of State for the Colonies — to back the proposal . |
| 41 | Some Labour politicians , including Reg Prentice as a junior minister , wished them to be ‘ required ’ to do this ; Crosland preferred that they should be ‘ requested ’ , determined that empty threats should not be issued or implied and to go forward as fast as he could by agreement and persuasion . |
| 42 | He says he can capture far more detail on slides than he could by sketching . |
| 43 | He took what comfort he could from France 's declaration of war on England on 4 March , followed by George II 's counter-declaration on the 29th , which gave the attempted invasion of his kingdom , not unreasonably , as a casus belli . |
| 44 | The gaoler was appointed , made his living as best as he could from bribes , favours , anxious relatives and profits from the already meagre food allocation — and was allowed to get on with it . |
| 45 | This error proved to be nearly the last straw needed to break his credit , since he had raised every cent he could in order to invest in land for building . |
| 46 | ‘ But the trouble is that we do n't know the pattern of the stars here , ’ said Snodgrass , who had sent himself quite dizzy by standing perfectly still and craning his neck as far back as he could in order to see the night sky . |
| 47 | While Marx rejects needs as the units in terms of which economic phenomena should be analysed , he could in principle simply replace them by some other property of individuals , and found a theory on this trait instead . |
| 48 | He could in fact drive quite well . |
| 49 | credit card or trading check which can be used only in specific shops ) ; or it is unrestricted , where the borrower gets a loan of money which he could in practice use for whatever he wants ( even if he has in fact arranged to use it for some particular purpose ) . |
| 50 | Owen 's reaction touched him on a sore spot ; and it was made all the sorer by an angry feeling inside him that there had indeed been incompetence , Egyptian incompetence , that he , Mahmoud , was ultimately responsible for it — and that there was absolutely nothing that he could in practice do about it . |
| 51 | He climbed a different shelf each day and hid for as long as he could behind piles of books , hoping to catch sight of what he called ‘ the Bookman' ’ . |
| 52 | He used to mother had to be going living with them . |
| 53 | He used to sort of let the girls know what they 'd been at . |
| 54 | And he used to sort of ask you questions you know , sort of sit there and pick on you and if he knew you did n't have the faintest idea what he was going on about he 'd ask you all the more , see , and if you could n't answer it , he used to come up to you , look at you , would n't say nothing , give you this funny look and tell you to get in the next room . |
| 55 | I remember when he always used to read out during the service before the sermon the previous week 's collection and it used to consist of the collection last Sunday consisted of one pensioning note , twenty ha'penny half crown pieces , forty florins and he 'd go all through the coinage down to the last ha'penny but erm oh I believe he was , he was er very aristocratic , very aristocratic , but er Father , cos he used to come over our house quite a lot when my mother was on the parochial church council , and er he had a curate that was quite leftish and he got himself on the old Board of Guardians and of course he used to sort of er go into the Labour Club and was quite of er father , he said to old Father one night he said erm he 's a funny chap your curate he said well he , he 's the son of a farm labourer he says and I 'm the son of a country squire and that 's the difference . |
| 56 | But Gerry did n't have confidence you see so he used to sort of rely on me to tell , but you will come to the conclusion that if I had would have said Gerry 's workmanship was absolutely superb ! |
| 57 | And he used to sort of be embarrassed about it . |
| 58 | I mean , I feel a bit , and he used to sort of denigrate it . |
| 59 | But he , he used to sort of say , oh do n't tell people , you know , he 'd think . |
| 60 | Did Brampton 's soul hover here , as he would for eternity , between heaven and hell ? |